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Oct 20, 2015 · Another features Bruce and Jean Ariss, artists who lived in Pacific Grove during Steinbeck’s time and moved in the colorful Ricketts-Steinbeck circle. Steve is an expert on California artists, and the gallery features paintings by friends of Steinbeck, including Bruce Ariss, inspired by the life and landscape of Pacific Grove, Carmel, and ...
Feb 18, 2023 · Steinbeck’s Phalanx: Bruce and Jean Ariss. February 18, 2023 by steinbeck. Join National Steinbeck Center Archivist, Lisa, to learn about Bruce and Jean Ariss, members of the Lab group on Cannery Row.
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The more I think about my life surrounded by artists on Huckleberry Hill—a hill overlooking Pacific Grove and Monterey, California—the more I regret not asking more questions and listening to more stories about John Steinbeck during the 1930s and 40s. Years later, during my time there, celebrities who today would be followed by a gaggle of fans and...
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor once stood six feet from me, gazing down at a flower garden I was constructing at a home in Pebble Beach. We exchanged smiles, as I was to do on a different occasion looking into the face of an aged and wrinkled Clark Gable. Bing Crosby saw me one afternoon and mistook me for his son. “Gary! What in the hell are you ...
John Steinbeck’s Big Sur, down the coast from Pacific Grove and Monterey, California, was a powerful lure for writers and artists. The author Henry Miller, Big Sur’s genius loci, would sit on his sofa opening a large mailbag delivered to his mailbox at the foot of Partington, his wife Eve at his side, putting the letters with money into one pile an...
Like John Steinbeck, a handful of major writers, artists and actors of note lived in Monterey before they became famous. In Steinbeck’s era (and mine), the community offered kinship, support, and a quality of privacy that, for celebrities today, would require a wall and bodyguards to achieve. My home in Steinbeck’s old neighborhood and my pub downt...
Oct 27, 2015 · In his early years he lived in the Monterey, California house where John Steinbeck once wrote and where he met friends from Steinbeck’s time. A Pacific Grove house, built with salvage from Monterey Bay by Bruce Ariss, reminded John Steinbeck of Robert Louis Stevenson. True story at SteinbeckNow.com.
Occupation. painter. Spouse. Jean McLellan Fitch. Bruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. (October 10, 1911 – September 11, 1994) was an American painter, muralist, writer, illustrator, editor as well as theater and set designer, amateur playwright and actor, and overall icon on the Monterey Peninsula, California.
Jan 25, 2012 · Jean Eldren Ariss, 84 of Oshkosh WI died peacefully at Bethel Nursing Home, January 22, 2012. Jean was born in Bethlehem, PA on October 7, 1927. Her family then migrated to Tama, FL. Jean...
Jun 23, 2022 · Back in Pacific Grove, Steinbeck said he’d like Saroyan to meet Bruce and Jean Ariss, who lived nearby. Bruce was an artist and Jean was a writer whose novel, The Shattered Glass, was inspired in part by the Monterey of the 1930s and 1940s.
